Author: Marvin

Diary Of A Busker Day 2556 Saturday June 7th 2025 Winchester.   Out during a break in the rain…there’s a singer up from The Buttercross but no one around the corner in The Square. I get through La Vie En Rose and right on cue, it starts raining so I drag everything back a few feet under the tree at… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2554 Wednesday June 4th 2025 Chichester.   Back to Chichester and an hour earlier than usual…and The Cross spot is free so I get in there while I can and don’t even bother having a look to see who else is about.  Slow coinage for a long time…a woman takes a photo and says ‘I’ve… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2550 Saturday May 24th 2025 Winchester.   At around 5 o’clock, about an hour in to the set in The Square, I had one one those “what are the chances of that?” moments. I was nearing the end of the last verse of Life On Mars? and doing OK, although I’d messed up a bit… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2549 Friday May 23rd 2025 Winchester.   A full house; Dean’s at the top spot, some bloke with a keyboard in The Square, Meeta at the crossroads and there’s even a stall in the newly-revisited corner of M&S spot. There’s only one spot and it’s down the arse-end. It starts off promising, with 15p during… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2548 Wednesday May 21st 2025 Winchester.   I held off going in because it was supposed to rain at 1:30 but it never did so I went in all the same. The top spot was free but I thought I’d spare the poor suffering shop people having to put up with me two days on… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2545 Friday May 16th 2025 Winchester.   The Buttercross is taken but The Square is reasonably diner-populated…but after 25 minutes there’s been zero donations. The only things of note was a man who walked past and shouted at the top of his voice “AAAAAHHHHHHH!” which really startled me, and secondly, a young woman on the… Read more →